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Whilst fisting your partner, you extend all 5 fingers mimicing the act of the death star exploding.
"Dude, my girlfriend was pissing me off all day so I gave her the Death Star and sent her to the hospital."
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Destroying the death star or doing the death star relates to the act of having sex with a fat girl. She has to be big enough though to acquire the nickname death star.
Dude I got destroyed by the death star last night.
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The act of having anal sex with your girlfriend and then stepping back 6 feet while her anus is still dilated and trying to hit the hole like Luke did when he destroyed the Death Star.
I sware to god my girlfriends ass was so wide I couldve pulled The Death Star.
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To perform a hand-stand on top of a toilet, naked. Must be followed by explosive diarrhea. Paint the walls. Enjoy! Not recommended with a shirt and tie on.
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Is Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court? Or does that distinction belong to the late Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who served on the court from 1932-1938 and whose ancestors may or may not have come from Portugal?
Unscrambling Cardozo's family tree is best left to historians and genealogists. Here we take a stab at a more daunting question. Just who is a Hispanic?
If you turn to the U.S. government for answers, you quickly discover that it has two different approaches to this definitional question. Both are products of a 1976 act of Congress and the administrative regulations that flow from it.
One approach defines a Hispanic or Latino as a member of an ethnic group that traces its roots to 20 Spanish-speaking nations from Latin America and Spain itself (but not Portugal or Portuguese-speaking Brazil).
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AUGUSTA, GA – The Peach Belt Conference announced the 2012 softball preseason All-Conference team from the league office on Tuesday afternoon and North Georgia placed three players on the 12-member team.
As selected by the league's head coaches, Armstrong Atlantic led the way with four honorees while North Georgia followed with Hilary Cox at third base, Pilar Harden as an outfielder and Jessica Coan as the starting pitcher. Augusta State, Flagler, Francis Marion, Georgia College and USC Aiken had one selection apiece.
The Peach Belt released the preseason all-conference squad exclusively through Facebook and Twitter with a new member being named to the team every 10 minutes. The league office will announce the softball preseason poll Wednesday afternoon. The Saints have been tabbed as the preseason favorite for three straight years and have lived up to the hype each time with three consecutive Peach Belt Conference regular season and tournament championships.
Hilary Cox was named first-team All-Conference at third base last season, her second straight first-team selection. A returning senior from Douglasville, Ga., she was also named first-team All-Region. She hit .338 and was tied for the league lead with 14 home runs during her injury shortened junior campaign. She was also tied for second in the PBC with 48 RBIs and was third with a .662 slugging percentage.
Pilar Harden was named second-team All-Conference and second team All-Region last year in the outfield. A senior from Watkinsville, Ga., she hit .303 with 11 homers and 45 RBIs as the Saints returned to the World Series. She was tied for fifth in the PBC in homers and RBIs as well as triples with three and in the PBC top 10 in hits, runs, total bases, walks and sacrifice flies.
Jessica Coan was named the Daktronics National Pitcher of the Year as well as the Peach Belt Pitcher of the Year for the Saints last season. A senior from Duluth, Ga., she was 27-5 with a league-leading 1.09 ERA and 334 strikeouts, the fourth-highest single-season total in PBC history. She held opposing batters to a league-best .151 average and led the PBC in innings, appearances and starts. She made NCAA history when she recorded 19 strikeouts in a seven-inning game, the second most in Division II history. Coan will look to hand North Georgia their fourth consecutive PBC Pitcher of the Year honor as the senior takes the circle for the Saints.
A senior class that has done nothing but win over the last three years, Cox and Harden have an all-time record of 154-19 and have sent North Georgia to three straight NCAA Division II National Championships.
With three consecutive PBC regular season and tournament championships, the Saints will look to keep their dynasty alive in 2012 and become just the second program in league history (Kennesaw State 1995-1998) to capture regular season and tournament titles in four straight years.
2012 Peach Belt Conference
Softball Preseason All-Conference Team
1b – Breezy Collings, Flagler
2b – April Jowers, Armstrong
3b – Hilary Cox, North Georgia
SS – Kacee Camp, Augusta St.
C – Ashley Buckett, Armstrong
OF – Pilar Harden, North Georgia
OF – Destinea Schneider, Francis Marion
OF – Shelby Duff, Armstrong
P – Jessica Coan, North Georgia
P – India Kornegay, USC Aiken
DP – Haley Burnett, Georgia College
UT – Baillie Temples, Armstrong


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W. Ross Ashby (September 6, 1903 – November 15, 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics and the study of complex systems.
- During the last few years it has become apparent that the concept of "machine" must be very greatly extended if it is to include the most modern developments. Especially is this true if we are studying the brain and attempting to identify the type of mechanism that is responsible for the brain's outstanding powers of thought and action. It has become apparent that when we used to doubt whether the brain could be a machine, our doubts were due chiefly to the fact that by ''machine'' we understood some mechanism of very simple type. Familiar with the bicycle and the typewriter, we were in great danger of taking them as the type of all machines. The last decade, however, has corrected this error. It has taught us how restricted our outlook used to be; for it developed mechanisms that far transcended the utmost that had been thought possible, and taught us that ''mechanism'' was still far from exhausted in its possibilities. Today we know only that the possibilities extend beyond our farthest vision.
- W. Ross Ashby (1951) "Statistical Machinery". In: Thales Vol 7. p.1 as cited in: Peter M. Asaro (2008) "From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby"
- The last two chapters, however — those on the cortex and its highest functions — fall off sadly, as so often happens when those who have spent much time studying the minutiae of the nervous system begin to consider its action as a whole; yet it is difficult to see, while present - day neurophysiology is limited to the study of the finest details in an organism carefully isolated from its environment, how the neurophysiologist's account could have been improved. The last two chapters, in fact, show only too clearly how ill adapted classical neurophysiology is to undertake the study of the brain's highest functions. At the moment it is far too concerned with details, and its technical resources are leading it only into the ever smaller. As a result, the neurophysiologist who starts to examine the highest functions is like a microscopist who, hearing there are galaxies to be looked at, has no better resource than to point his microscope at the sky. He must not be surprised if he sees only a blur.
- Ashby (1954). "Review of The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind, by J. C. Eccles." In: Journal of Mental Science. Vol 100. p.511. as cited in: Peter M. Asaro (2008) "From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby"
- Two main lines are readily distinguished. One already well developed in the hands of von Bertalanffy and his co-workers, takes the world as we find it, examines the various systems that occur in it - zoological, physiological, and so on - and then draws up statements about the regularities that have been observed to hold. This method is essentially empirical. The second method is to start at the other end. Instead of studying first one system, then a second, then a third, and so on, it goes to the other extreme, considers the set of all conceivable systems and then reduces the set to a more reasonable size. This is the method I have recently followed.
- Ashby (1958) "General Systems Theory as a new Discipline". General Systems, 3 (1958). p. 1-6; cited in: Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory. p. 94-95
Design for a Brain: The Origin of Adaptive Behavior (1952)[edit]
- Source: Ashby (1952) Design for a Brain: The Origin of Adaptive Behavior. New York, Wiley. (1960 edition online)
- Every stable system has the property that if displaced from a state of equilibrium and released, the subsequent movement is so matched to the initial displacement that the system is brought back to the state of equilibrium. A variety of disturbances will therefore evoke a variety of matched reactions.
- p.54
- The primary fact is that all isolated state-determined dynamic systems are selective: from whatever state they have initially, they go towards states of equilibrium. These states of equilibrium are always characterised, in their relation to the change-inducing laws of the system, by being exceptionally resistant.
- p. 238
An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956)[edit]
- Source: W. Ross Ashby (1956) An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman & Hall.
- Cybernetics is likely to reveal a great number of interesting and suggestive parallelisms between machine and brain and society. And it can provide the common language by which discoveries in one branch can readily be made use of in the others... [There are] two peculiar scientific virtues of cybernetics that are worth explicit mention. One is that it offers a single vocabulary and a single set of concepts suitable for representing the most diverse types of system... The second peculiar virtue of cybernetics is that it offers a method for the scientific treatment of the system in which complexity is outstanding and too important to be ignored. Such systems are, as we well know, only too common in the biological world!
- p.4-5
- The most fundamental concept in cybernetics is that of "difference", either that two things are recognisably different or that one thing has changed with time. Its range of application need not be described now, for the subsequent chapters will illustrate the range abundantly. All the changes that may occur with time are naturally included, for when plants grow and planets age and machines move some change from one state to another is implicit. So our first task will be to develop this concept of "change", not only making it more precise but making it richer, converting it to a form that experience has shown to be necessary if significant developments are to be made.
- p.9
- [T]he concept of "feedback", so simple and natural in certain elementary cases, becomes artificial and of little use when the interconnexions between the parts become more complex. When there are only two parts joined so that each affects the other, the properties of the feedback give important and useful information about the properties of the whole. But when the parts rise to even as few as four, if every one affects the other three, then twenty circuits can be traced through them; and knowing the properties of all the twenty circuits does not give complete information about the system. Such complex systems cannot be treated as an interlaced set of more or less independent feedback circuits, but only as a whole.
For understanding the general principles of dynamic systems, therefore, the concept of feedback is inadequate in itself. What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.
- p.54 as cited in: Margaret A. Bode (2006) Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science, Volume 1. p.229
About Ashby[edit]
- General systems theory is considered as a formal theory (Mesarovic, Wymore), a methodology (Ashby, Klir), a way of thinking (Bertalanffy, Churchman), a way of looking at the world (Weinberg), a search for an optimal simplification (Ashby, Weinberg), didactic method (Boulding, Klir, Weinberg), metalanguage (Logren), and profession (Klir).
- George Klir cited in: James T. Ziegenfuss (1983) Patients' rights and organizational models: sociotechnical systems research on mental health programs. p.104
- [A] famous photograph... showing McCulloch (1898–1969) and Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) with British Cyberneticians Ross Ashby (1903–1972) and Grey Walter (1910–1977), first appeared in de Latil (1953) with the caption "The four pioneers of Cybernetics get together in Paris", and encapsulates a view of the development of cybernetics that has slowly become more accepted: that there were important British contributions from the outset.
- Phil Husbands and Owen Holland (2012) "Warren McCulloch and the British Cyberneticians" in: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol 37, nr. 3. p.237-253


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SILVERTON – The first man to try going overland from McMurdo Sound to the South Pole was Englishman Robert Falcon Scott in 1912. He was in a desperate race with Roald Amundsen to be the first to reach the Pole. Not only did Amundsen, who took a different route, beat him to 90 degrees South, but Scott and his companions famously froze to death in their tents on the way back.
In 2006, Silverton mining consultant John Wright led a crew of eight Americans to complete the first successful out-and-back traverse between McMurdo and the Pole. They weren't explorers in the early-20th century sense. They did it in the course of building, over four Antarctic summers, a haul road, "1,028 miles, no dirt," Wright said at his kitchen table in Silverton.
A reproduction of a photograph from the Scott expedition hangs on the wall next to a family photo of Wright and his wife, Samantha Tisdel Wright, and their two children.
The ice and snow road Wright pioneered connects the U.S. scientific research center at McMurdo Station, on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, with the South Pole, which is also occupied exclusively by the United States Antarctic Program.
Now Wright has written a book about the experience, Blazing Ice: Pioneering the Twenty-first Century's Road to the South Pole. It will be published this September by Potomac Books.
The purpose of the road, Wright said, was to "relieve the South Pole of its dependence on airlifts." Up until 2006 all supplies to South Pole Station were flown in by giant LC 130 cargo planes equipped with skis. And only in the summers, when temperatures and daylight allow. One plane can bring in 20,000 lbs. of cargo, but the flights are costly and burn a lot of fuel, which is not the best for the pristine air at the bottom of the world. And it takes a lot of flights to support the 200 or so summer and 50 year-round residents at the Pole. Now just one of Wright's cargo trains, giant sleds pulled by giant snow tractors, delivers 220,000 lbs. of fuel and supplies, enough to offset 11 LC 130 flights.
Why wasn't a road built before? "It wasn't possible until the 21st century," Wright said. The ice is in constant motion, shifting as much as six feet a day, a half-mile in a year. The ice road this year is not in the same place it was last year. "It's a real dynamic road," he said, with scientific understatement. "You can't navigate it using GPS." You have to follow the flags his crew placed every 300 feet for the full thousand miles.
The route is tiger-striped with hidden crevasses. A D8 bulldozer named Linda went down in a crevasse during an earlier road-building attempt, just a few miles out of McMurdo, in 1991.
"We didn't have ground-penetrating radar until 2000" to detect the voids, Wright said. Before the Proof of Concept journey was over, Wright was even able to make use of classified satellite imagery that could identify hidden crevasses from space – "spook stuff," he said, with some pride in his success at gaining the necessary clearance.
When the Traverse found an unavoidable crevasse, they would first lower a mountaineer into the fissure to gauge its dimensions, then collapse the snow bridge with explosives, then use their bulldozers to push more snow into the hole until they had a solid crossing.
"Had we tried it [building the road] a decade earlier," Wright said, "we would have met with calamity." Crossing one "shear zone" the team plugged 32 crevasses in three miles.
Wright, now 60, came to Silverton in 1974 answering an ad for a "mine engineer, no experience necessary." But the downturn in mining and a chance encounter with a friend led him to Antarctica and 13 years of work for the National Science Foundation, which oversees all U.S. operations on the continent.
Wright asked his friend, who was a buyer for the NSF in Antarctica, "What can a miner do to support first-class science?" "You know something about explosives, don't you?" And so, for five years, beginning in 1993, Wright was the chief explosives engineer for the U.S. Antarctic Project. In 1998 he cut a tunnel beneath the South Pole Station. The tunnel carried utilities, melted well water and wastewater for the expanding settlement. It was always, Wright said, 55 degrees below zero in the tunnel. When the digger broke, which was often, "we dug the tunnel with picks and shovels and chainsaws."
When the tunnel job was finished Wright "thought that was it for me and Antarctica."
But as it happened he met a Cedaredge friend for lunch at Ridgway's True Grit Café. This man had been the operator on Linda, the Cat that went down in the crevasse. And he told Wright about the new effort to build a road, the South Pole Traverse Proof of Concept Project. "Can it be done at all? Can it be done safely? Can it be done repeatedly?"
Wright was drawn back to the ice. It took four years. They had to deal with 300 miles of soft snow they dubbed "the snow swamp" and with 100 miles of wind-whipped sastrugi so hard it broke the arm on their ground penetrating radar, so hard a D8 Cat left no tread marks. "As hard as the back of God's hand," Wright said, marveling still.
But they pushed the route through. And came back.
The book took Wright nearly as long to write as it did to build the road. It's going to be an interesting read.


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Medical supplies are desperately needed for a crucial Republic battlefront. While the Jedi Knights transport Poggle the Lesser as a prisoner to Coruscant, the Padawans Barriss Offee and Ahsoka Tano are dispatched to escort the medical frigate to its destination. When Geonosian brain worms take control of the clone troopers aboard their supply ship, Ahsoka and Barriss must battle to stop the vessel from unleashing the deadly plague upon the galaxy.
Ahsoka Tano becomes the sole person aboard the medical frigate not infected by Geonosian brain worms. She must stay one step ahead of her braindwashed enemy, and face her friend Barriss Offee in a lightsaber duel.
Anakin worries deeply about the safety of his Padawan, and demands answers from Poggle the Lesser... even if it means some decidedly un-Jedi-like interrogation procedures.
Captured by the Republic, Poggle the Lesser is shackled and taken back to Coruscant aboard a Republic cruiser. Knowing his value as a Separatist prisoner, Poggle believes he is safe for the moment, but he underestimates Anakin Skywalker's determination to get answers.
Jedi Master Kit Fisto is stationed at a medical facility near Ord Cestus. When Ahsoka's medical frigate approaches infested with Geonosian brain worms, the containment of this threat to the galaxy becomes his responsibility.
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If Indiana State coach Greg Lansing has a personal list of well timed coaching decisions he's made in his career as a head coach, he'll have to revise it after ISU's contest against High Point on Sunday.
Lansing made its first starting lineup change of the season as Lucas Eitel started in place of Dawon Cummings.
The change had the perfect end result … literally. The Marshall, Ill. native converted 9 of 9 from the field, including 7 of 7 from 3-point range, to score 25 points as the junior guard put the Sycamores on his shoulders and carried them to a 76-62 victory.
That decision kind of paid off, didn't it?
"You reward a guy because he deserves it. He works every day in practice. He was a huge lift and it wasn't just because he was making shots, it's because he was defending too. That's why he got the nod, because of how he defended at Ball State and how he practiced the last couple of days," Lansing said.
Eitel's seven 3-point makes in one game tied an ISU record set by Jay Tunnell against Illinois State in 2009. Eitel also shares the consecutive 3-pointers made mark over multiple games with Tunnell as Eitel has converted eight 3-pointers in a row. He made his last 3-point attempt in ISU's 68-48 win over Ball State last Tuesday.
Eitel also joins Jordan Printy as the only players in ISU annals with perfect 3-point shooting performances in a game.
"There was one game in high school, we played Flora, where I was pretty hot, but that's up there for sure," said Eitel, when asked whether he'd ever had a better shooting performance.
"My teammates were screening and giving me good passes. I was able to find some open shots. Once they go down and keep going in, your confidence just grows," Eitel said.
Eitel was one field goal attempt shy of setting ISU's all-time shooting percentage record for one game. Ten attempts are the minimum standard to set a field goal record. Eitel could have missed one more attempt and still set the record, which has been held by Joe Warfel (85.7 percent) since 1965.
"It was the Lucas Eitel show. He was on fire. He got some really good looks at the rim and he can shoot it," High Point coach Scott Cherry said.
ISU (4-1) needed every bit of Eitel's scoring muscle. The Sycamores trailed a gritty High Point team 32-30 at halftime, but Eitel made three 3-pointers in five ISU possessions to start the second half as ISU turned its halftime deficit into a 41-36 lead barely three minutes in.
Eitel's perfect shooting sent a jolt through the rest of the Sycamores, who had struggled mightily in the first half from the field. Khristian Smith and R.J. Mahurin scored all of ISU's points after Eitel's 3-point outburst as ISU pushed its lead to 52-40 by the 12:26 mark of the second half.
"[Eitel] started, so we knew we had to look for him early. Once he starting hitting shots, I told him to keep shooting. He's the one guy on my team I want to shoot, no matter if he has three guys in his face. We have confidence in him and tonight was his night," Smith said.
Eitel made his last bucket of the game, a long two, with 11:40 left, but by then, his teammates were knocking down their shots with regularity. ISU shot 14 of 20 from the field in the second half and had just two turnovers.
Smith was the most active of ISU's scorers. The freshman had 11 of his career-high 18 points in the second half.
"I attacked the basket. Lately, I've been settling for jump shots. I haven't been getting my head down and being aggressive on offense like coach wants me to be. I had energy on the defensive end too and that helped me," Smith said.
Though Eitel's shooting was paramount, ISU also pulled away thanks to its defense on High Point's high scoring duo of John Brown (20.3 ppg entering the game) and Allan Chaney (17.3). Brown got into foul trouble and scored 10. Chaney scored a season-low six points.
"If you make them take a tough shot on that end, which we did about 80 percent of the time, more often than not, you're going to come out ahead," Lansing said.
Eitel also sizzled in the first half, but ISU wasn't able to capitalize. He converted 5 of 5 from the field in the first 20 minutes, including four 3-pointers and two in the first two minutes of the game. He had 14 points at halftime, breaking his previous career-high of 12 by the 6:35 mark.
But Eitel was the only Sycamore who could generate any offense. ISU moved with little vigor on the offensive end against High Point's zone defense.
ISU was 10 of 26 from the field, but if Eitel's shooting is taken out of the equation, the rest of the Sycamores were 5 of 21. ISU was also 6 of 14 at the free throw line in the first half and shot just 56.3 percent for the game.
The Panthers' bench had 19 points at halftime as it picked up the scoring slack for Brown and Chaney and High Point led 32-30 at halftime.
But the Panthers (3-2) couldn't keep up in the second half.
ISU has a significant challenge in its next game as unbeaten New Mexico visits Hulman Center on Saturday as part of the Mountain West-Missouri Valley Conference Challenge. The Lobos have already beaten Davidson, George Mason and Connecticut.
The game pits Lobos head coach Steve Alford against Lansing, who was on Alford's staff at Iowa from 1999-2006.
HIGH POINT (62) – J. Brown 4-9 2-2 10, Chaney 2-8 2-2 6, Edwards 2-7 0-0 4, Cheek 1-3 0-0 3, Simms 2-4 0-0 4, McGaughy 4-8 0-0 10, McIntrye 0-1 0-0 0, Duncan 0-0 0-0 0, Cugini 1-1 0-0 3, Law 3-4 2-3 8, Weary 5-7 2-4 12, Mikulic 1-2 0-0 2. 25-54 FG, 8-11 FT, 62 TP.
INDIANA STATE (76) – Gant 0-4 4-4 4, Kitchell 1-2 2-2 4, Eitel 9-9 0-0 25, Arop 3-7 0-0 6, Odum 1-5 5-8 7, D. Brown 0-0 2-5 2, Cummings 0-1 0-3 0, Mahurin 3-7 2-6 10, K. Smith 7-11 3-4 18. 24-46 FG, 18-32 FT, 76 TP.
Halftime score – HPU 32-30. 3-point goals – HPU 4-11 (McGaughy 2-4, Cugini 1-1, Cheek 1-1, Edwards 0-2, Chaney 0-1, Weary 0-1, Mikulic 0-1), ISU 10-15 (Eitel 7-7, Mahurin 2-4, K. Smith 1-2, Arop 0-1, Cummings 0-1). Rebounds – HPU 27 (Chaney 8, Brown 4, Law 4, Edwards 2, Simms 2, McIntyre 2, Weary 2, Cheek, Cugini, Mikulic), ISU 35 (Odum 8, Mahurin 6, Gant 5, K. Smith 5, Arop 4, Eitel 3, Cummings 2, Kitchell, D. Brown), Assists – HPU 11 (Chaney 3, Simms 2, Weary 2, Edwards, Cheek), ISU 15 (Odum 6, Kitchell 3, Eitel 2, Gant, Mahurin), Steals – HPU 3 (Brown, Law, Weary), ISU 4 (D. Brown 2, Gant, Cummings), Blocks – HPU 4 (Brown 3), ISU 4 (Gant, Kitchell, Arop, Odum), Turnovers – HPU 10 (Chaney 3), ISU 6 (Gant 2, Arop, Odum, D. Brown, Mahurin), Total fouls – HPU 24, ISU 14. Fouled out – none. A – 5,487.
Next – ISU (4-1) plays host to New Mexico on Saturday. High Point (3-2) plays at Western Michigan on Thursday.


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Be the Envy of the Neighborhood with the Craftsman 32 Inch Wide Floor Cabinet
Since this is the room most often seen by curious neighbors, make them jealous with the Craftsman floor cabinet. A great solution to get your garage organized, the 32 inch storage unit helps you make the most of your space while it coordinates with your other Craftsman storage and shelving. Store everything from paint cans to sporting equipment and more by simply adjusting two of three full-width shelves to suit your needs. Don't worry about swinging doors or the unit toppling over, either, thanks to enhanced features to ensure doors remain latched and the cabinet stays firmly in place
Solid and rigid once assembled, the cabinet comes with easy-to-follow instructions so putting it together is simple and you can get it done by yourself without any assistance. And when not in use, keep it locked so harmful chemicals and valuable items are secure. You'll like this Craftsman 32 Inch Wide Floor Cabinet so much, you'll wonder how you ever had a garage without one.
- The Craftsman 32 in. Wide Floor Cabinet gives you a well-organized garage with convenient storage for everything in one location
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Waldron Energy Corporation announces operational update
Thursday, Jan 10, 2013Waldron Energy Corporation (TSX:WDN) ("Waldron" or the "Corporation") is pleased to provide an operational update regarding the fourth quarter 2012 production estimate of approximately 2,475 boe/d consisting of 650 bbls/day of oil and natural gas liquids and 11 mmscf/d of natural gas. This compares to a third quarter 2012 production of 2,235 boe/d.
The Corporation currently estimates production at 2,400 boe/d based on 600 bbls/day of oil and natural gas liquids and 10.8 mmscf/d of natural gas.
The Corporation has engaged Macquarie Capital Markets to divest the Corporation's Crystal property as well as its undeveloped Duvernay petroleum and natural gas rights. Crystal is currently producing 550 boe/d consisting of 180 bbls/day of natural gas liquids and 2.2 mmscf/d of natural gas. The Duvernay assets include 25 sections of Duvernay rights. Bids are due in early February 2013.
Waldron will announce its 2013 capital budget in mid February 2013. Year end 2012 net debt is forecast to be approximately $35 million.
Waldron also announces the promotion of Jeff Kearl, CA, to the position of VP Finance and CFO. The Corporation wishes to thank Ms. Pam Orr, CA for her efforts and contribution over the past four months and wishes her well in her future endeavors.
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The City of Tempe's beautiful Kiwanis Park Recreation Center is a 52,000 square ft. multi-purpose center offering a wide range of facilities available for rent. Meetings, classes, receptions, reunions, athletic events, parties, and other social or corporate activities can be held at our facilities. When you book an event at the Kiwanis Recreation Center, we want to help provide you with "effortless fun". Check out our Event Services options to help your event run smoothly.
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The real news is that they are teaming up against poverty for the UNDP!!!
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With three strategically placed locations as well as eLearning opportunities, SCF is accessible to students living in all parts of Manatee and Sarasota counties and available 24/7/365. Significant and sustained improvements to SCF's locations, with more than $50 million invested in the past eight years, have shaped them into inviting and functional sites with attractive landscaping, well-designed buildings, and state-of-the-art classrooms and labs.
SCF Bradenton
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I-75 to Exit 217 (SR 70/53rd Ave.), head west on SR 70 (becomes 53rd Ave.) to 26th St. W. Turn left (south) onto 26th St. W. SCF Bradenton is on the right between 57th Ave. W. and 60th Ave. W.
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A few years back, Gianni Di Gregorio made a nice little film called Mid-August Lunch. Now that it's mid-August again, here comes his follow-up feature, The Salt of Life. It's not quite as good, but still may provide a nice summertime diversion if you're looking for something other than the latest blockbuster or a kids movie.
Jane Durrell speaks with Melissa Godoy and Amy Kruep, the forces behind Until Sadie Blotz, a local film that uses Alzheimer patients from DaySTAE as actors.


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It's the part of the Constitution that keeps the government from invading your privacy for no reason. If the police, the IRS, or the FBI want to search your home, they need a good reason, and a warrant from a judge.
Laws often lag behind technological change. As a result, privacy can suffer. Consider the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), adopted in 1986. Under ECPA, government agencies claim they do not need a warrant to search private stuff you have stored in the cloud, including email.
Every day we read about new government surveillance programs accessing more info about our private lives. We're in a critical moment. Fortunately, momentum in Congress is building in support of the Email Privacy Act (HR 1852), which would update ECPA and require a warrant for online communications.
ECPA says the government can read a lot of your most personal stuff without a warrant. That doesn't make sense and conflicts with the Fourth Amendment.
That's why members of Congress from both parties are supporting the Email Privacy Act. But if we want a bill to pass, we'll need even more Members to support legislation. That's why you should contact your Representative today and ask him or her to cosponsor the bill.
With each passing day, more and more of our personal information and communications are stored online. Almost everyone stores years' worth of email, along with private photos and many other sensitive materials. Unless we act now to urge Congress to make this common sense update to ECPA, aggressive government investigators will try to access this information without a warrant.
Privacy means you can be yourself. You can express ideas without fear of being unjustly punished or discriminated against. Privacy lets you live your life without pausing to think if the government is watching. Privacy keeps you safe. It's a core principle in any free society.
Online privacy is also important to businesses that are increasingly moving to cloud storage. Outdated privacy laws like ECPA create uncertainty that harms economic growth.


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Explore our garden, inspired by herbal references in Shakespeare's plays and also incorporating plants popular in his time, including lavender, creeping thyme, and English ivy; a knot garden; and Shakespearean statues by American sculptor Greg Wyatt. Folger docents offer insights into plantings, Elizabethan customs, and more.
Ralph Alan Cohen on Blackfriars: "The Most Convenient Place"
Before it became synonymous with a theatre, The Blackfriars was a London precinct literally at the nexus of the City, the Church, and the Court. Ralph Alan Cohen, Director of Mission and Co-Founder of the American Shakespeare Center where he oversaw their building of a replica of the Blackfriars Playhouse, looks at how the place and the playhouse mirrored one another and made the Blackfriars the place to be and the place be seen.
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Actors from Washington's Taffety Punk Theatre Company present a staged dramatic reading of excerpts of The Roaring Girl, a bold, brilliant play by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. The play was first produced in 1611 and was restaged famously in the 1980s by the Royal Shakespeare Company. David Schalkwyk, Folger's director of research, talks about why this "city comedy" reveals so much about Jacobean London.


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After a grueling four-game control-on-control final, Guillaume Wafo-Tapa of France emerged as the winner of Pro Tour-Yokohama. Already renowned as a deck designer, Wafo-Tapa scored the big trophy in his first Sunday appearance at a Pro Tour - certainly ending any anonymity Wafo-Tapa may have previously held.
Pro Tour champion is an impressive title, especially when you consider Wafo-Tapa accomplished the feat against one of the most fearsome Top 8s ever assembled. To get to his showdown with Japan's Kazuya Mitamura in the finals, Wafo-Tapa first had to defeat Worlds Top 8 member Paulo Carvalho and Pro Tour-Honolulu champion Mark Herberholz. Mitamura's road was not any easier, taking down reigning Rookie of the Year Sebastian Thaler and Pro Tour-Charleston champion Tomoharu Saito to make the finals.
Ridiculous haymakers filled the final match, with Draining Whelks and Teferis flying across the table. Mitamura took one game with the "Pickles" combo of Brine Elemental and Vesuvan Shapeshifter, but ultimately, Wafo-Tapa's choice to play cards with as much raw power as possible paid off. After navigating a Top 8 filled with big monsters and bigger names, Guillaume Wafo-Tapa emerged as the champion of Pro Tour-Yokohama!
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Language barriers can be challenging to overcome. Some challenges are easier to tackle than others, but the founders of VerbalizeIt found themselves in quandaries that were a little more serious. Their experiences lead them to create a platform to help others overcome language barriers. VerbalizeIt offers a variety of plans to assist with language interpretation. Whether you need translation services to conduct a business deal in China or you're just tired of resorting to animal impressions to avoid eating an unknown food from an indecipherable menu in a foreign land, they can help.
We recently chatted with VerbalizeIt co-founder Ryan Frankel about their business journey.
Ryan: VerbalizeIt delivers real-time access to human translators to make sure that nothing is ever lost in translation. We empower businesses and travelers with the ability to instantly connect with a live translator any time of day, anywhere in the world and from any device or application. VerbalizeIt is the first service that delivers the quality of human translation but at a price-point that is affordable and accessible to everyone. With VerbalizeIt, as long as you have a phone, you have access to a human interpreter who is standing by to make sure that language is never a barrier to communication.
Ryan: VerbalizeIt was founded out of personal unfortunate circumstances in which I was traveling in China and became violently ill. Despite knowing exactly what medication I needed, I could not communicate with any pharmacists due to the language barrier. I was fortunate to survive and upon returning from my trip, I connected with my co-founder, Kunal Sarda over similar travel circumstances.
Both Wharton MBA students at the time, Kunal and I resolved to build a business to enable travelers and businesses alike to navigate language barriers by giving them instant access to a community of human translators.
Ryan: Prior to launching VerbalizeIt, I was a private equity investor on behalf of Goldman Sachs. An ex-Haverford College baseball player, I also founded a web-based community to support the college athletic recruiting needs of student-athletes and college coaches. I am an endurance enthusiast and have competed in an Ironman triathlon and a marathon.
Kunal was an engineer and a management consultant in his prior life where he advised clients ranging from seed-stage to Fortune 500 companies. It was only a matter of time before his love for travel, language and startups culminated in VerbalizeIt.
Ryan: Founded out of personal unfortunate circumstances, VerbalizeIt delivers the quality of human-powered translation but at levels of technological sophistication and at prices more synonymous with newer machine translation technologies. By leveraging the magnitude and breadth of multilingual individuals across the globe, VerbalizeIt connects those capable of delivering translation solutions with those in need of navigating language barriers.
Ryan: VerbalizeIt competes on its superior prices, technological sophistication and innovative translation solutions and on its ability disrupt an archaic translation industry unwilling to accept the unique and varying needs of business and consumer clients.
Ryan: VerbalizeIt is a platform powering translation solutions. Travelers can visit VerbalizeIt.com or the iPhone and Android app stores to download our mobile apps or receive access to a local phone number in order to speak directly with an interpreter. Businesses can register at VerbalizeIt.com for a suite of translation capabilities, ranging from instant interpretation to document, audio and even video translation solutions.
VerbalizeIt has 10,500 translators and customers on every single continent. Our mission is to make VerbalizeIt synonymous with translation, enabling businesses to operate on a global scale and to help travelers navigate language barriers while abroad.
Ryan: VerbalizeIt leverages the strength of its partnerships with Skype, Rosetta Stone and Inspirato, and we benefit tremendously from word-of-mouth referrals from travelers and businesses having tremendously favorable experiences with our products.
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Except for tournament programs and a haphazard official club history written by [Clifford] Roberts (who, in 1977, killed himself on the course, a .38 to the head), Augusta National has been extremely guarded about its history. Any member who talks publicly about the club risks being expelled. With rare exceptions, the sporting press has been content to grovel and glorify the club and its tournament. "A gift for all of us to enjoy," The Golf Channel's Rich Lerner twaddled this week. To Charlie Sifford, however, the whole production has always been a crock. "Can somebody explain to me," he once asked, "how the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, became such a revered sporting event?"


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Of the nine teams already qualified, just three will be returning from the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2009 - Royal Challengers Bangalore (India), Victorian Bushrangers (Australia) and Wayamba Elevens (Sri Lanka).
Only one place remains to be filled, with the West Indies representative to be confirmed in late July. Trinidad & Tobago represented the Caribbean in 2009 and set the tournament alight with its brilliant run through to the final.
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FORT WAYNE – Ken Hitchcock didnt play hockey at a high level, and hes won a Stanley Cup. Roger Nielson didnt play competitively at all, and hes regarded as a one of the greatest hockey coaches of all time, an innovator in things like using video to break down games.
So its not uncharted territory what Gary Graham has done, going from a player who only made it to Tier II of juniors and was hired last Tuesday as coach of the ECHLs Komets, two rungs below the NHL.
When people talk about playing careers and things like that, I wouldnt change anything thats happened in the last 10 years, said Graham, whose coaching career began with Sniders club team in 2002. A lot of everything thats happened to me – the highs and lows – are whats made me who I am today, and I wouldnt change anything.
Graham, 34, is a North Side graduate. He picked up the sport at age 12 and played 1 1/2 years of juniors in Pittsburgh and Bismarck, N.D. He graduated from Ball State with a degree in exercise science, and he also coached North Sides team and juniors for the Indianapolis-based Indiana Ice.
It was while he was with the Ice that a friend – former Komets captain Guy Dupuis – arranged for him to have lunch at a local Chipotle with then-Komets coach Al Sims, who was just coming off the 2008 IHL championship. After that meeting, Sims took on Graham as an unpaid assistant, even though Graham was still coaching in Indianapolis and commuting back and forth.
It was his desire and drive to get to the next level. He wanted to propel himself to the IHL. I could see that in him, said Sims, a former NHL coach with the San Jose Sharks. I thought, hes eager and wanting, and I heard hes a loyal guy and thats what I wanted.
Over four years under Sims, Graham went from watching video and preparing scouting reports, to getting a paycheck as a full-time assistant and running the power play. By 2012, Sims sometimes ceded control of the bench to Graham, and they won the CHLs Presidents Cup together. It was their third title together.
While Grahams lack of playing experience was known in the locker room – about 2003, he had skated alongside forward Lincoln Kaleigh Schrock on a roller-hockey team at The Plex – it rarely came up in conversation.
Some guys are just such good students of the game that it doesnt matter, Komets center Jean-Michel Rizk said. As long as you study so much, watch so much tape, and pick up other teams tendencies, youll be fine. Maybe Gary didnt play the game at a high level, but hes so smart and has so much hockey sense that it doesnt matter.
Graham had been in the running for some head coaching jobs while with the Komets – most notably with Bloomington of the CHL – and he was itching for a new challenge even before Fort Wayne general manager David Franke told him it was time for him to get his feet wet elsewhere as a professional head coach.
That place was Pensacola, Fla., where he led the Single-A Southern Professional Hockey Leagues Ice Flyers in a season rife with drama and celebration.
One of Grahams first moves was to get rid of the incumbent captain, Dan Buccella, and replace him with former Fort Wayne player Leo Thomas. Graham also got rid of Steve Christie, one of the best goalies in the SPHL.
Graham endured a slew of call-ups – thanks largely to the end of the NHL lockout – and the league suspended Thomas for the season for punching a fan. Graham convinced Buccella to return, finished the regular season with a 33-18-5 record and the No. 3 seed and he won the championship. Players John Dunbar, Ron Cramer and Jeremy Gates had been with Fort Wayne but asked to be sent back down to Pensacola to play for Graham.
He was able to create a situation and a culture in Pensacola, whereby they had a good team but lost a lot of players, Komets president Michael Franke said. He went out and found a bunch of new players to make sure they were still at the top of the list in the SPHL. And then at the end of the season, his players from earlier in the year demanded to go back because they wanted to win a championship in Pensacola. To me, that speaks volumes about the type of person Gary is and what players think of him.
The Komets, meanwhile, went 33-35-4 in their first ECHL season and missed the playoffs, which hadnt happened since 2002. Sims, 60, retired soon after.
If you had asked me a year ago if Gary would be in the ECHL as a head coach so soon, I would have probably said no, Sims said. But after what he did in Pensacola, its impressive. He was going against good coaches like (former Komets player) Kevin Kaminski, and he was able to come out on top and I think hes ready.
Sims played 516 NHL games – he was Bobby Orrs defense partner – and it was that résumé that landed him his first gig as a player/assistant coach with the Komets in 1988. He never had to do what Graham did and cajole then-head coach Robbie Laird into giving him a job.
(Graham) works extremely hard and thats how hes gotten to today, and he loves the game, Sims said. He watches every NHL game on TV, loves his Boston Bruins and tries to learn whenever he watches a game, whether its SPHL or NHL. Hes constantly learning. Youve got to constantly change and come up with new things.
Graham welcomes any of the doubters because it drives him to succeed.
I feel like the fact that I didnt have that playing career gives me that edge that I need, that thirst for knowledge, and Im never complacent, he said. I always feel like theres always something to learn, whether its studying our own team, studying other teams, going to clinics or whatever. I have a thirst for knowledge and I know my players are the same.
Graham is a father of two – son Connor is 8, daughter Isabella is 4 – and owns Fort Waynes Pyromaniac Fireworks, which he rebuilt after it burned down in 2009.
He really has come a long way and has had to work at every level to take the next step, Schrock said. Thats whats encouraging about him. Hes proved himself at every level, so why cant he do it here?
Graham has taken particular inspiration from two other coaches with limited playing experience: Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper and Chuck Weber, who won two titles with Cincinnati of the ECHL and now coaches San Antonio of the higher-level American Hockey League.
They broke in and got a door opened up for them and made the most of what they had, Graham said. I think the new generation of players, they want coaches who know how to work with them and how to communicate with them. Ive had to show people my ability to gain peoples respect. The best way to do that is to outwork everybody, and thats the only way I know how to go about my business.


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The racing genre is as clogged as a dirty exhaust pipe, with myriad generic titles releasing every year. With DiRT Showdown, developer Codemasters mans the wheel to innovate in ways that set the franchise apart from both other racing titles and their own previous installments in the series.
According to Senior Games Designer Mike Chapman, Codemasters has been considering the changes for a few years now. " DiRT Showdown is really giving us a chance to explore these new areas," he said.
While the classic DiRT formula of racing all over the world in venues from Michigan to Tokyo remains intact, the development team has increased the tempo of multiplayer matches and community interaction alike. In a day and age where standalone player hubs for player careers are becoming more prevalent (Halo Waypoint, Call of Duty Elite, Ghost Recon Network, etc.), Codemasters is entering the fray firing on all pistons.
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RaceNet aside, the game is making the multiplayer aspect just downright more fun. New game modes are being implemented which will really drive home the feeling of an action sports racing game.
Smash & Grab is a game mode that closely resembles Oddball from Halo. Two teams are pitted against each other and must hold on to a neutral flag for as long as possible to accrue points. However, the intensity of Smash & Grab far outweighs that of Oddball, with collisions transferring the flag from the carrier to the attacker. Subsequently, attackers must haul a** out of there to maintain possession of the flag. This is where memorizing and utilizing the course design comes in handy.
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Other game modes being implemented in Showdown are sure to extend the longevity of the game's multiplayer experience. Head to Head mode pits two players against each other in gymkhana courses in which specific maneuvers must be used in order to win. Expect to drift, jump, spin and avoid myriad obstacles on the way to the finish line. For players who want to sit back, relax, perform stunts and complete challenges on their own, the Hoonigan events will drop them into a free roaming course where freedom is the name of the game.
Codemasters is leaving no stone unturned, once again calling on the expertise of professional rally driver Ken block to validate the DiRT experience. When it comes to the Hoonigan gymkhana rally cars, Block has given advice on the handling of the vehicles, as well as the individual mechanics overall.
"We've spent a lot of time working with Ken," said Smith." He's been involved since the very start of the project in terms of how the player involvement feels overall."
With all of the changes to the DiRT formula being implemented, the development team is planning on paying close attention to community feedback in order to further extend the life of the product.
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The Mexican side, appearing in the competition for the second successive year, booked a date with Chelsea courtesy of a 3-1 quarter-final win over Ulsan Hyundai at the weekend, but Vucetich appreciates taking on Rafael Benitez's side is a far different proposition.
'Chelsea are very physical and tough,' he explained. 'Up front they have not so tall players but they are very fast with the likes of [Juan] Mata, [Eden] Hazard, [Victor] Moses.
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